Re: tlug: Re: Japanese input

["Matthew J. Francis" <asbel@example.com>]

On 10-Jun-98 Karl-Max Wagner wrote:
> > done.  I read somewhere recently that there is even an
> > entire magazine published in romaji, by a group that favors
> > abolishing kanji.
>
>  Interesting ! Please give me more info !

I think I know this one; the answer was sitting forgotten on my bookshelf
in the form of "All-romanized English-Japanese Dictionary", by the
'Hyoujun Romaji Kai' and published by Tuttle.

The full title given inside is the "Zaidan Hojin Hyojun Romaji Kai",
but I don't see any contact details. The foreword was written in 1961,
so obviously this group have been around for a while...
  (I will save myself the embarassment of trying to translate that
without the Kanji; this foreigner at least finds reading with Kanji,
even as inaccurately as I do, much easier than trying to figure out
what the Kanji for a word in romaji should be :)


-Matt.

PS. A small suggestion to, er, no-one in particular; Whitespace isn't a
sin, and can we please have a little of it? :) Paragraph and quotation
separation really is a huge aid to scansion... thanks.


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